[OSM-talk] Linux install guide

[Thomas Wood]

On Feb 17, 2008 11:52 AM, Etienne <treasurer at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> An OSMF donor has offered a reasonable donation/payment if someone were to
> make "a simple guide on how to install and display maps on your unix-based
> server".
>
> They want something that "even the most basic linux users can figure it
> out".
>
> The requirements are not totally clear at the moment but if anyone is
> interested in doing this please contact me.
>
> Etienne
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"to install and display maps" is a very broad term. Display maps how?
What level of customisation is required?
For just rendering, the mapnik wiki page seems comprehensive. -
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mapnik
For the data storage and apis, the rails port is also (fairly) well
documented on it's respective page.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/The_Rails_Port

With no knowledge of rails/ruby I was able to easily get the rails
port running (under OpenBSD, of all things). I'm planning to take a
look at mapnik sometime, since I want to do some custom renderings.

I've tweaked Erik's wiki page a bit for wiki syntax, clarity and to
point to the OL simple example, rather than saying "copy code from the
osm frontpage".

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Regards,
Thomas Wood
(Edgemaster)